A community association is objecting to renewed plans for advertising screens in a conservation area. Plans for a phone kiosk with advertising screens in three streets in central Brighton are back after a planning inspector approved appeals made by the developers. But members of the North Laine Community Association (NCLA) have expressed their upset at the proposals.
The developers want to build the advert screens, which would also have phone chargers and a defibrillator each, in Western Road, West Street and Jubilee Street. Peter Wingate-Saul, a trustee of the NLCA and the group’s planning coordinator, said the screen in Jubilee Street, called a “pulse smart hub”, would be “detrimental to public amenity”. In the objection, he wrote: “The location is in the North Laine Conservation Area.
Whilst we accept that the immediately surrounding environment is not typical of the North Laine as a whole, considerable care was taken over the design of Jubilee Square and Jubilee street, which form an important link, both physical and visual, between the North Laine and New Road. “We are disappointed that this artist’s impression of the installation, submitted by the applicant in their drawings, significantly under-represents the size of the installation and therefore of the advertising screen.” READ MORE: Neighbours' upset at '15ft monstrosity' fencing around pop-up fan zone An artist's impression of the screen.
The NLCA say this 'significantly under-represents' the scal.
